By Ken Epstein A man who was sentenced to life in prison for a 2011 murder in North Oakland was quietly released from prison last September...
By Ken Epstein The all-volunteer transition team supporting the administration of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price has issued a report on the first 75...
By Tanya Dennis and Vanessa Russell Although California Senate Bill 357 was intended to alleviate arrests of willing sex workers under anti-loitering laws, it opened a...
By Mark Hedin California Black Media Since Yvonne Braithwaite Burke became the first Black woman elected to serve in the California State Assembly in 1966, 20...
By Tammerlin Drummond When a woman is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, chemotherapy and radiation often make her too weak to work. If she is working...
By Ken Epstein Landlords held a protest this week at an Oakland City Council meeting calling for an end to the city’s eviction moratorium protection, one...
By Carla Thomas On Wednesday, March 7, new Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price added a second charge to a man already accused of a hate...
By Post Staff Supporters of Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao held a rally this week, praising the mayor for firing OPD Chief LeRonne Armstrong and for demonstrating...
By Ken Epstein Geoffrey’s Inner Circle, a downtown Oakland Cultural Center that has featured live jazz and served music lovers and the Black community for decades,...
By Emil Guillermo Congressional elections remind us why we live where we live. At least in the Bay Area. California, a safe Blue zone for the...
These five leading mayoral candidates (pictured above) represent different approaches to solving Oakland’s complex challenges. All are capable of leading the City of Oakland, although with...
By Pamela Price | Post News Group Candidate for Alameda County District Attorney In 2020, California took a huge step forward to reform our criminal justice...
By Post Staff On Oct. 8, the Northern California Conference of Seventh Day Adventists (SDA) held their annual Convocation at Grand Avenue Seventh Day Adventist Church...
By Richard Johnson Violence in of itself is a reaction to various triggers that gives it life. In other words, it is a manifestation of situations...
By Elsa Ortiz, President of AC Transit Board The challenge of inequitable transportation access is felt by tens of thousands of residents in inner East Oakland...
By Zack Haber The Oakland Unified School District is no longer publishing data this school year to inform students, staff, parents and the public about positive...
By Ken Epstein | Post News Group Heading into the Fall 2022 school board election season, the political atmosphere remains highly energized in the wake of...
By Tanu Henry | California Black Media As the monkeypox virus outbreak spreads around the globe, Gov. Gavin Newsom says California will need to galvanize forces...
By Tanya Dennis Last week, the Oakland City Council approved $250,000 to assist the East Bay Association of Black Psychologists (EBABP) and Oakland Frontline Healers (OFH)...
By Paul Cobb and news services Ignacio De La Fuente, the former President of the Oakland City Council for 11 years, says he will run for...
By Tanya Dennis When facing a need for health care, mental health evaluation or a mental health crisis, people of Asian, American Indian or Latinx descent...
By Post Staff Teachers’ unions in Alameda County are criticizing Alameda County Superintendent of Schools L. K. Monroe for paying more than half a million dollars...
Supt. L.K. Monroe Failed to Inform Trustees of Payments to Managers Totaling $600,000 By Post Staff Teachers’ unions in Alameda County are criticizing Alameda County Superintendent...
Alameda County’s Santa Rita jail, run by Sheriff Gregory Ahern, has been the target of multiple lawsuits over jail conditions and has had the most in-custody...
Black Mental Health pt. 2 By Tanya Dennis With the global COVID-19 pandemic, we knew the world would never be the same. For some, COVID-19 has provided...
